For the third posting, I read chapters 7-9. In these chapters, we learn that Uncle John didn't take his wife to the hospital when she had a stomachache, and she later died from a burst appendix. After that he did anything he could to make up for it. Tom meets his parents and they are surprised and happy to see him. All of the family ask if Tom has escaped from prison. Al, Tom's younger brother comes home. The men start to work on fixing Pa's truck.
The tenants start packing everything up to move. They sell items they have for little money, but at least it's some money. Whatever the tenants didn't sell, and didn't need, they put into a big bonfire and watched it burn. After the flame died out, they all got in their trucks and left.
The tenants start packing everything up to move. They sell items they have for little money, but at least it's some money. Whatever the tenants didn't sell, and didn't need, they put into a big bonfire and watched it burn. After the flame died out, they all got in their trucks and left.
These chapters started out pretty happy with the Joad family reunion. Everyone just seemed so happy to see Tom, even though they thought he escaped jail. After that the story was sad again because it went to the Tenant side of the story. I thought it was sad how the tenants had to burn pretty much everything they own because they couldn't take it with them.
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